Chapter 92 - Halved

"Lei!!!" Von exclaimed while trying to pull Lei away from the tower but the boy wouldn't budge even after hearing the heavy footsteps and old women's laughter nearing them.

"Come on!!!!" Von tugged Lei's shirt even more but Lei only pushed him away.

"I won't leave until you come with me," Von said and flew in front of Lei, aiming to grab his foot and lift him off the ground.

Von almost succeeded but the moment the fake maids came banging on the wooden trapdoor not far from them, Von suddenly lost his balance and fell down with Lei on top of him.

"Just go, Von! I will kill them all and I don't think you can handle watching me do it in front of you!" Lei said which shocked Von.

"What?! What if you get killed instead?!"

"If you don't go now I will surely get killed because of you," Lei said confidently which made Von think thoroughly about the situation.

"Can't we just run away together?" Von tried to bargain again but Lei shook his head sternly.

"Just go." He said, which finally made Von fly towards Petunia reluctantly.

"I thought the others dealt with them already?" he asked absentmindedly while watching Lei anticipate the wave of fake maids trying to break in the wooden trap door.

"I thought so too." Petunia said and brainstormed a thousand different scenarios of how she could help the Crones who couldn't fly from capturing Von.

'Should I give him a sleeping potion?' Petunia thought and searched for the same sleeping potion they made earlier for Gem.

On the other hand, while Lei was anticipating for the Crones to come breaking the trap door in front of him, he was surprised when the noise suddenly went down so he went closer to inspect.

But at that moment, the door suddenly flew beyond the roof making him step backward. 

And there they were.

Maids of different faces but all with the same wicked smile as if they were looking at their dinner.

And indeed they were planning to make him dinner that day.

"I like unborn children more but I think this kid would also satisfy my hunger for today." One of them said while using her long snake-like lips to lick her watery mouth just by looking at Lei and Von not far from him on the back.

Somehow, Lei was sure he heard at least more than thirty people downstairs, but there were only three in front of him right now.

'Are they giving me the advantage of a three vs. One so I could beat them all up one by one?' he thought and just shrugged it off with a confident smirk plastered on his face.

But little did Lei know, the other Crones were actually hanging on the walls of the brick tower already, just waiting for their signal to jump at him from Posy, their leader.

"There are people behind you, Lei! You've got to watch out!" Von shouted, trying to warn Lei who only nodded at him.

"People behind me?" Lei quickly looked back and when he saw no one, he immediately thought Von was just joking.

"The other one's flying," Yorela whispered to Posy enthusiastically as if she was looking at the most exciting part of her life right now.

"That one's yours," Posy said, giving Yorela the permission that she was waiting for since forever.

"Okay!" Yorela laughed like crazy and stood at the stone railings of the circular tower.

"Charge," Posy whispered with a rosy smile without even moving an inch which confused Lei even more, but then, when he looked back, there were a bunch of crawling creeps that suddenly leaped towards him, stacking like dirty clothes in a laundry basket and he was at the bottom of them all.

"Ouch! Sh*t!" he exclaimed while trying hard not to let go of the blades in his hands while they were suspending his limbs one by one.

When Lei finally got wind of the weight that was preventing him from moving earlier, he expertly maneuvered his blades with his fingers to cut off the nearest thing that he could cut off from the disgusting old people around him, but instead of red blood, all he saw was black liquid leaking from the light cuts that he intentionally made just to make them let go of him.

"Oh no, Lei!" Von shouted after seeing the number of fake maids jumping towards him.

Momentarily having this urge to help him by flying towards them and knocking them off of Lei but because he was weak and cowardly, Von could only stare and watch them as his muscles stiffen out of frustration in mid-air.

'Lei could do it.' He thought positively while remembering Lei's confident words, taking a deep breath along the way to calm himself down before looking back at them again.

But this time, instead of Lei being pinned to the ground, he was now slowly picking himself up by cutting his way through the crowd using the small blades that he was carrying earlier. 

And since the Crones were supposed to bring Lei back to their base alive, they really had no other choice but to hold back what they could do in order to capture him as alive as possible.

Whilst Lei on the other hand was just enjoying the scenario, spinning like a tornado, Lei was able to free himself from the Crones' old and sickly hands, jumping up and down the ceiling and the floor and smashing their heads using his short but sharp blades.

Lei was having the time of his life! Especially after seeing that their blood was demon black instead of human red, he just gained more than enough reasons to kill them ruthlessly.

However, on the edge of Von's eyes, there was a lady that was standing on the railings and taking her own precious time, stretching around as if she was getting ready to attend a Zumba session while also ripping off the fake face that she used to camouflage her way inside the castle to reveal her real old wrinkled face and a body that was just skin and bones. But unlike the others, she was a hunchback and shorter than them which made Von's eyebrows furrow at her movements even more.

Especially when a pair of black bat-like wings suddenly appeared from her back.

And when it flapped, her body was suddenly halved into two!

A lower body that was left standing on its own on the railings of the tower where she was just standing earlier and her upper body with wings that was now flying towards him and Petunia in full speed!

"Watch out!!!" Von shouted before pushing Petunia out of the way.